Thailand’s government said Saturday that two foreigners were involved in arson attacks on major buildings, unleashed after a crackdown on “Red Shirts” protests in Bangkok. Thailand’s biggest shopping mall, Central World, was left gutted and partly collapsed in Wednesday’s mayhem that saw 36 buildings torched, including the stock exchange and bank branches. “A white Westerner […]
BANGKOK—Life in Bangkok started returning to normal Thursday as Thailand’s capital began to clean up the mess left by a monthslong protest, but a solution to the country’s deep-seated political problems appeared no closer. While government troops dealt with some remaining pockets of resistance from a small number of militant protesters, and most of the […]
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Some Bangkok residents ventured out on Thursday to shop and take stock of the damage done to their city one day after the government evicted thousands of anti-government protesters from a downtown district, triggering fires, riots and intense street battles. Some shoppers at the Emporium mall — which was not set […]
Arsonists, rioters and shooters wreaked havoc in many areas of Bangkok on Wednesday after red shirt leaders announced an end of their 45-day protests at the Rajprasong shopping area. The government’s Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) imposed curfew between 8 am and 6 am in Bangkok and other provinces where the […]
Red shirts protesters went berserk on Wednesday after their leaders surrendered to police and ended Rajprasong rally. They attacked by setting fire on TV 3 Channel and library of Stock Exchange of Thailand. One staffer said cars parked outside the building were set on fire and protesters then entered the Channel 3 building. The fire […]
RED protesters are torching Bangkok tonight in a frightening reversal of this afternoon’s apparent ending of a street demonstration that was contained in a small part of the capital. Fire trucks of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation were not able to reach one blaze in a huge shopping mall in Bangkok today because […]
Hundreds of police and troops, backed by armoured vehicles, converged on the red-shirt protesters’ camp in Bangkok early Wednesday, raising fears of an imminent crackdown. Twelve armoured personnel carriers (APCs) with machine guns mounted on top arrived in the Silom business district, and two took up positions in front of the protesters’ homemade barricades before […]
Amid intensifying Thailand protests, antigovernment ‘red shirt’ demonstrators ignored a deadline Monday to leave their fortified downtown Bangkok camp, now ringed by troops. Bangkok, Thailand Thailand’s red shirt protesters defied a government deadline Monday to abandon an anarchic rally ringed by heavily armed security forces as the toll rose from five days of street fighting. […]
